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Mick Garris
Award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris began writing fiction at the age of twelve. By the time he was in high school, he was writing music and film journalism for various local and national publications, and during college, edited and published his own pop culture magazine. He spent seven years as lead vocalist with the acclaimed tongue-in-cheek progressive art-rock band, HORSEFEATHERS. His first movie business job was as a receptionist for George Lucas's Star Wars Corporation, where he worked his way up to running the remote-controlled R2-D2 robot at personal appearances, including that year's Academy Awards® ceremony. Garris hosted and produced "The Fantasy Film Festival" for nearly three years on Los Angeles television, and later began work in film publicity at Avco Embassy and Universal Pictures. It was there that he created "Making of..." documentaries for various feature films. Steven Spielberg hired Garris as story editor on the AMAZING STORIES series for NBC, where he wrote or co-wrote 10 of the 44 episodes. Since then, he has written or co-authored several feature films (RIDING THE BULLET, *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, THE FLY II, HOCUS POCUS, CRITTERS 2) and teleplays (QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY, VIRTUAL OBSESSION, THE OTHERS), as well as directing and producing in many media: cable (Showtime's PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING), features (CRITTERS 2, SLEEPWALKERS), television films (QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY, VIRTUAL OBSESSION), series pilots (THE OTHERS, LOST IN OZ), and network miniseries (THE STAND, THE SHINING, STEVE MARTINI'S THE JUDGE). His independent feature film version of Stephen King's RIDING THE BULLET, which Garris adapted (and produced and directed) from King's e-book phenomenon, was released in October, 2004, and he is currently completing postproduction on DESPERATION, which King adapted himself, and which Garris is producing and directing as a three-hour ABC feature for television.
Garris is the creator and Executive Producer of the Showtime series MASTERS OF HORRORTM as well as a writer and director on the show. A LIFE IN THE CINEMA is his first book, though he has had stories published in several magazines and anthologies. His second book — and first novel — DEVELOPMENT HELL: THE NINE LIVES OF A HOLLYWOOD PLAYER, will be published by Cemetery Dance in 2005. Garris lives in Studio City, California, with his wife, Cynthia, an actress, musician, composer and muse.
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